On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 12:23:40PM +0100, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:

| phil-openssl-users> What I had to do to get around the problem was to
| phil-openssl-users> build critical programs like OpenSSH statically so
| phil-openssl-users> they had no dependency on the shared library.
| 
| That doesn't matter.  OpenSSH detects a difference in the shared
| library, down to the patch level, so whenever you upgrade OpenSSL,
| even within the same "series", OpenSSH will stop working.  That's
| their choice, and I can understand it.

If you understand it, could you explain that understanding?  Is it
because of the API changes?

I guess I need to continue to build OpenSSH statically.  And if their
choice persist even after OpenSSL 1.0.0, that may have to be forever.

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